I took this issue to Lewisham's transport liaison committee last night and both bus companies said that they would welcome anything to improve this route and this sounded reasonable to them.

The representative from Lewisham council was a little more sceptical, suggesting that it might encourage more cars to use this route, that removing a couple of spaces would have a minimal impact, and that residents may be negatively impacted by the loss of parking spaces. Nevertheless, I believe it is something that Lewisham will take a look at to make a fair assessment of the benefits of a change which would be fairly simple to implement.